Referee Program

The club is in need of Referees to create a fair and exciting environment for games. USSF allows Youth 13 up to Adults to be certified to officiate. Because we have games for ages U20 – U8 that need officials, older high schoolers and adult referees are always welcomed to the club.

Benefits of refereeing include

Providing a service to your club and your community

Great exercise, you will be required to run to be close to the action to make calls

Flexibility, you pick the times you can work and we schedule you appropriately. You have an opportunity to confirm the games we assign you to.

Give the children a great competitive experience by providing a fair and level game with clear rules enforcement

Help the coaches, they are often the most appreciative of having refs available for their games

New Referees and Recertification

Unless you have been a certified referee or coach in the past, click “I don’t need help finding a duplicate profile”.

If you are 17 or older, you will need to sign up for a background check. NOTE: JKYSC will rebate $50 for all referees who certify, and $80 for anyone 17 and older after they work 4 games for the club.

At the top Click “Courses”

Select “Background Screening” and proceed with that. Again, that’s only required if you will turn 18 this year.

Proceed with the prompts, it takes about a week to do your background screening, and you can not start the online training until then.

Conduct SafeSport training under Courses

Do Concussion Training – You only need to complete one of the two below. If you’ve done it for coaching or something else, it should count as long as you have your certificate. Make sure you save a copy of your certificate and e-mail it to referee@jkysc.com with your name.

“New Grassroots In-Person – Steubenville, OH (4/4) Youngstown” – Is the course that will be held at 10 AM – 4 PM at EGCC in Steubenville (Youngstown is our referee district where the instructors drive from). The class does end early some times if you get through all of the materials. The Host should be “Ohio North Referee Committee”

NOTE: If you have not done your background check, it will stop you here until you complete.

Complete the Online portion of the course

After registering (Step 4), Go to My Courses and select the First-time referees course, and once open select the Assignments tab. It will look similar to the one on the right.

SafeSport (Step 2 above) needs to be complete, this is the only section you can do while awaiting your background check.

Grassroots referee course

Grassroots referee quiz

Safe and Helathy Environment

Attend the In person class at EGCC room 2100 from 10 AM to 4 PM. NOTE: If you know you can not attend the 4/4 class, but still want to be certified, you can attend another class listed. Once you complete your in-person class, please notify Robert Zaleski or Eric Timmons so we can get you into our Assignr system so you can get scheduled for games.